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... HE ARGUS
Illinois., esleyan University
VOL. 47 BLOOMINGTON, ILINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939
- ,
Nineteen states
send student-s
to Wesleyan
Italy and Hawaii are
represented; more
transfer to Wesleyan
By Dale Mehrhoff
Of Illinois Wesleyan's total
enrollment this fall, 69 are from
other states of the Union. We
have represented on our cmpus
nineteen different states, which
is an all high record.
From the eastern section of
the country-Maine, New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Connecticut, and Massachusetts
come 19 of our out-of-state
students, New York leading with
10. From the west we have stu-dents
hailing from California
and Wyoming. Others have come
from Iowa, Oklahoma, Indiana,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas,
Kansas, and Arizona. Not only
are different states represented
but also Hawaii and Italy.
No official statement can be
made concerning the total en-rollment
as yet but it will be
about 700 students. Out of this
total about 232 are freshmen.
From these approximate statis-tics
there, is only one fact that
gives cause for dismay (mostly
to the men). There are not
enough girls to go around. Out'
of nearly 232 freshmen only
about 92 are girls. But cheer
up fellows; it has always been
that case to a lesser- or greater
degree, so there is no cause for
great alarm. Up to date there
has never been a need for any
such thing .as a Lonely Hearts
club at Wesleyan.
It is very encouraging to note
that more students have trans-ferred
to Wesleyan this year
than for several years back. And
to top that : there have been
fewer Wesleyanites transferring
to other schools.
Of noteworthy interest is the
fact that a great percentage of
our student body this :fall were
valedictorians or else ranked in
the upper third of their class in
high school.
We have on our campus all
sorts of students in all modes
of life. They have come to Illi-nois
Wesleyan to prepare for all
types of professions, careers, and
trades-- doctors, lawyers, mer-chants,
chiefs; richmen, poor-men,
and gentlemen-on-relief
(beg pardon but I wanted it to
rhyme.)
Tea dance Friday
With an all school tea dance
Friday afternon at 3:30, the Stu-dent
Lounge flings wide- its
doors to its second year's acti-vities.
Newly decorated, the Lounge's
cheery atmosphere promises to
become a favorite rendezvous
for freshmen :as wrell as upper-classmen.
Greek groups
tell pledges as
rush week ends
As the five days of rush week
came to an end last Tuesday,
the fraternities and sororities of
Illinois Wesleyan university an-nounced
their pledges.
The :following are fraternity
pledges
Sigma Chi -Edward Telling,
Jr., Danville; Bob Young, Gales-burg;
Edward Healey and Jack
Anderson, New York City; Hen-ry
Oakwood, Bob Landry, Don
Hopkins, and Stan Nord, Bloom-ington;
Edward Fuller, Canton;
Paul O'Kane, Shabbona; Ed-ward
Quigley, Kankakee; Bill
Massarand, St. Louis; Jack
Thurnblad, Chicago; James Pat-terson,
Peoria; Harold Wimber-ley,
Roodhouse.
Tau Kappa Epsilon--William
Alkire, Donald Burke, Richard
Black, Robert Crabtree, and
Donald Routsong, Danville;
Lindsey Blotcky, Onarga; Jules
Beaumont, Robert Taylor, Clar-ence
Richter, and Vernon John-son,
Chicago; Oscar Carlson, Jr.,
Park Ridge; Kenneth Canacy,
Morris; John Harper, Thawville;
Louis Howard, Carlisle, Ind.;
Walter Hampton, Streator;
Glenn Johnson and Elwin Taft,
Nokomis; Charles Masters and
John Ronoz, Divernon; Robert
Miato, Kankakee; Robert Steph-ens,
Forrest.
Phi Gamma Delta-W a y n e
Botsfield, Tom Collier, Joe El-liot,
Don Freese, and Bill Smith,
Bloomington; Paul Greenleaf,
Normal; Roy Hawthorne, Kan-kakee;
Bob Moran, Depue; Ro-bert
Pitts, McLean;, Charles
Rodelius, Moline; James Sample,
Minonk; Bill Bartlow and Har-old
Davis, Rushville; Ian Pres-ton,
Glencoe; Al Duval, Saratoga
Springs, N.Y.; Harry Anderson,
Chicago.
Beta Kappa--Kenneth Dunkle
and Otto Ulbrich, Chicago; Ver-non
Smith, Virden; William
Rood, Ridgefarm; and Alex Var-nak,
Republic, Pa.
Phi Mutl Alpha-Robert Becker,
Tremont; Wilbert Bode, St.
Louis,. Mo.; Francis Leonard,
Long Island, N.Y.; Harold Luhr-ing,
Pontiac; Kenneth Sallinger,
Rochester; Paul Purcell, Pinck-neyville;
,and Franklin Staples,
Princeville.
Twenty-seven girls in the-lib-eral
arts school were pledged to
sororities. After pledge services
spreads were held by the var-ious
houses. Kappa Kappa Gam-ma
-members were entertained
at the home of Mrs. Archie
Schaeffer, 1215 East Washington
street, while the Alpha Gamma
(Continued on page 3)
Corn attends meet
Dr. Isaac S. Corn as secretary
of the local Pi Gamma Mu so-ciety
attended the annual Illi-nois
meeting of the organiza-tion
in Chicago on June 23. This
was also the biennial election
meeting.
NO. 2
Ellen Sikes Peters to present
"The American Way" Wednesday
Mrs. Eleanor
Sikes Peters
of Peoria
will present
a dramatic
reading as
the opening
program of .the
Illinois .Wesleyan
lecture course
Wednesday.
"Dear Diary" is told all the lowdown
on events of annual "Grind" night--:
i!
by Janie
Tuesday, Sept. 12
Dear Diary:
This is one Tuesday night I
shall never forget! Even though
the thermometer had a terrific
build-up, I don't think that
anyone dancing really'minded
the heat as much as they pre-tended
to. As you know, the
weather is a wonderfully safe
conversational topic, and we
freshman had to have some-thing
to talk about while intro-ducing
ourselves to each other.
Of course there were the tra-ditional
newcomers who insisted
upon watching their contempor-aries
and upperclassmen swing
out while they viewed everything
from the sidelines. However, by
the time the clock struck 12,
our bashful classmates were
right out .among them.
I've heard so many upperclass-men
talking about their good
times at "the Grinds" before,
but I didn't imagine they were
so much fun.
Carol, the girl I knew that
came here last year, was there
tonight. I had to laugh-she wasl
floating about greeting every-one.
I could just hear her say-ing,
"Hi, Jake!" "Well, if it isn't
Barts!" "Look what came in."
"I thought you weren't coming
back this year. Gee, it's good to
see you." So many of the stu-dents
were so enthusiastic about
meeting old friends that they
forgot to dance.
Kenny Layne's orchestra u
heart and soul in their playing.
Everyone seemed spell-bound
when they tore loose on "White
Heart."
Flashing pledge pins that
danced forth on men's lapels
and lassie's frocks made many
students joyful and proud, as
their respective fraternities and
sororities presented them to
Wesleyan society.
One dance was a special "boy
meets girl" dance, invented for
the benefit of freshmen, and it
was amusing and interesting to
observe how everyone came out.
Well, it's all over now, but
the Grind will be remembered
by everyone as a fitting climax
to freshman week. Now that
everyone is thoroughly impressed
by Wesleyan's social life, we can
try to welcome studies as a
joyful relief.
Freshman music talent
to be featured on
next chapel program
Dr. Isaac Corn, head of the
chapel committee, has announc-ed
a musical program for next
Thursday's chapel.
The musical talent is to be
drawn from the incoming fresh-man
class.
1 ---
year.
"Placements for last year's
graduates have been extremely
satisfactory," states Mr. Jordan.
Fifty-three of last year's gradu-ating
class have been placed-which
is more than any pre-vious'
year. More alumni have
been helped to secure better po-sitions.
NOTICE!!
There will be a meeting of
all members of the Argus staff
Wednesday at 1 p. m. in the
reception room of Presser hall.
Students interested in work
for the A7rgus are also asked
to attend.
Activity tickets admit
students; program
is open to public
The first of an attractive ser-ies,
of lecture programs has
been scheduled for Wednesday,
September 20. This season's
course will be opened with the
dramatic reading of the famous
Broadway play, "The American
Way," by Eleanor Sikes Peters.
This will be Mrs. Peters third
appearance on the Wesleyan
stage. In two previous years
she presented "First Lady" and
"You Can't Take It With You."
Town people, as well as stu-dents,
may attend the lectures.
Students will be. admitted upon
presentation of the activity
ticket. The charge to the public
is forty cents. A season ticket,
covering admission to the entire
course costs $3.00.
Prof. William Beidles is in
charge of the programs.
More. music students
than ever, says
Dean Frank Jordan
"Twenty-eight students have
asked for admission to the music
school as freshmen, since the
official closing date of admis-sion,
June 15," announced Dean
Frank B. Jordan-in an inter-view
concerning new students
and the placements of graduates
in teaching positions.
"The talented group of fresh-men,
that we.now have includes,
students from Illinois, :Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin,
New York, and Michigan. A care-ful
check has been made on
the high schol records of all
new students."
Largest in the history of the
school of music is its' present
enrollment, consisting of 185
bachelor's degree students, ex-cluding
special students, un-classified,
and graduate stu-dents.
A smaller drop occurring
in the upperclass enrollment
makes it necessary for all fresh-men
to be admitted early in the

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... HE ARGUS
Illinois., esleyan University
VOL. 47 BLOOMINGTON, ILINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939
- ,
Nineteen states
send student-s
to Wesleyan
Italy and Hawaii are
represented; more
transfer to Wesleyan
By Dale Mehrhoff
Of Illinois Wesleyan's total
enrollment this fall, 69 are from
other states of the Union. We
have represented on our cmpus
nineteen different states, which
is an all high record.
From the eastern section of
the country-Maine, New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Connecticut, and Massachusetts
come 19 of our out-of-state
students, New York leading with
10. From the west we have stu-dents
hailing from California
and Wyoming. Others have come
from Iowa, Oklahoma, Indiana,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas,
Kansas, and Arizona. Not only
are different states represented
but also Hawaii and Italy.
No official statement can be
made concerning the total en-rollment
as yet but it will be
about 700 students. Out of this
total about 232 are freshmen.
From these approximate statis-tics
there, is only one fact that
gives cause for dismay (mostly
to the men). There are not
enough girls to go around. Out'
of nearly 232 freshmen only
about 92 are girls. But cheer
up fellows; it has always been
that case to a lesser- or greater
degree, so there is no cause for
great alarm. Up to date there
has never been a need for any
such thing .as a Lonely Hearts
club at Wesleyan.
It is very encouraging to note
that more students have trans-ferred
to Wesleyan this year
than for several years back. And
to top that : there have been
fewer Wesleyanites transferring
to other schools.
Of noteworthy interest is the
fact that a great percentage of
our student body this :fall were
valedictorians or else ranked in
the upper third of their class in
high school.
We have on our campus all
sorts of students in all modes
of life. They have come to Illi-nois
Wesleyan to prepare for all
types of professions, careers, and
trades-- doctors, lawyers, mer-chants,
chiefs; richmen, poor-men,
and gentlemen-on-relief
(beg pardon but I wanted it to
rhyme.)
Tea dance Friday
With an all school tea dance
Friday afternon at 3:30, the Stu-dent
Lounge flings wide- its
doors to its second year's acti-vities.
Newly decorated, the Lounge's
cheery atmosphere promises to
become a favorite rendezvous
for freshmen :as wrell as upper-classmen.
Greek groups
tell pledges as
rush week ends
As the five days of rush week
came to an end last Tuesday,
the fraternities and sororities of
Illinois Wesleyan university an-nounced
their pledges.
The :following are fraternity
pledges
Sigma Chi -Edward Telling,
Jr., Danville; Bob Young, Gales-burg;
Edward Healey and Jack
Anderson, New York City; Hen-ry
Oakwood, Bob Landry, Don
Hopkins, and Stan Nord, Bloom-ington;
Edward Fuller, Canton;
Paul O'Kane, Shabbona; Ed-ward
Quigley, Kankakee; Bill
Massarand, St. Louis; Jack
Thurnblad, Chicago; James Pat-terson,
Peoria; Harold Wimber-ley,
Roodhouse.
Tau Kappa Epsilon--William
Alkire, Donald Burke, Richard
Black, Robert Crabtree, and
Donald Routsong, Danville;
Lindsey Blotcky, Onarga; Jules
Beaumont, Robert Taylor, Clar-ence
Richter, and Vernon John-son,
Chicago; Oscar Carlson, Jr.,
Park Ridge; Kenneth Canacy,
Morris; John Harper, Thawville;
Louis Howard, Carlisle, Ind.;
Walter Hampton, Streator;
Glenn Johnson and Elwin Taft,
Nokomis; Charles Masters and
John Ronoz, Divernon; Robert
Miato, Kankakee; Robert Steph-ens,
Forrest.
Phi Gamma Delta-W a y n e
Botsfield, Tom Collier, Joe El-liot,
Don Freese, and Bill Smith,
Bloomington; Paul Greenleaf,
Normal; Roy Hawthorne, Kan-kakee;
Bob Moran, Depue; Ro-bert
Pitts, McLean;, Charles
Rodelius, Moline; James Sample,
Minonk; Bill Bartlow and Har-old
Davis, Rushville; Ian Pres-ton,
Glencoe; Al Duval, Saratoga
Springs, N.Y.; Harry Anderson,
Chicago.
Beta Kappa--Kenneth Dunkle
and Otto Ulbrich, Chicago; Ver-non
Smith, Virden; William
Rood, Ridgefarm; and Alex Var-nak,
Republic, Pa.
Phi Mutl Alpha-Robert Becker,
Tremont; Wilbert Bode, St.
Louis,. Mo.; Francis Leonard,
Long Island, N.Y.; Harold Luhr-ing,
Pontiac; Kenneth Sallinger,
Rochester; Paul Purcell, Pinck-neyville;
,and Franklin Staples,
Princeville.
Twenty-seven girls in the-lib-eral
arts school were pledged to
sororities. After pledge services
spreads were held by the var-ious
houses. Kappa Kappa Gam-ma
-members were entertained
at the home of Mrs. Archie
Schaeffer, 1215 East Washington
street, while the Alpha Gamma
(Continued on page 3)
Corn attends meet
Dr. Isaac S. Corn as secretary
of the local Pi Gamma Mu so-ciety
attended the annual Illi-nois
meeting of the organiza-tion
in Chicago on June 23. This
was also the biennial election
meeting.
NO. 2
Ellen Sikes Peters to present
"The American Way" Wednesday
Mrs. Eleanor
Sikes Peters
of Peoria
will present
a dramatic
reading as
the opening
program of .the
Illinois .Wesleyan
lecture course
Wednesday.
"Dear Diary" is told all the lowdown
on events of annual "Grind" night--:
i!
by Janie
Tuesday, Sept. 12
Dear Diary:
This is one Tuesday night I
shall never forget! Even though
the thermometer had a terrific
build-up, I don't think that
anyone dancing really'minded
the heat as much as they pre-tended
to. As you know, the
weather is a wonderfully safe
conversational topic, and we
freshman had to have some-thing
to talk about while intro-ducing
ourselves to each other.
Of course there were the tra-ditional
newcomers who insisted
upon watching their contempor-aries
and upperclassmen swing
out while they viewed everything
from the sidelines. However, by
the time the clock struck 12,
our bashful classmates were
right out .among them.
I've heard so many upperclass-men
talking about their good
times at "the Grinds" before,
but I didn't imagine they were
so much fun.
Carol, the girl I knew that
came here last year, was there
tonight. I had to laugh-she wasl
floating about greeting every-one.
I could just hear her say-ing,
"Hi, Jake!" "Well, if it isn't
Barts!" "Look what came in."
"I thought you weren't coming
back this year. Gee, it's good to
see you." So many of the stu-dents
were so enthusiastic about
meeting old friends that they
forgot to dance.
Kenny Layne's orchestra u
heart and soul in their playing.
Everyone seemed spell-bound
when they tore loose on "White
Heart."
Flashing pledge pins that
danced forth on men's lapels
and lassie's frocks made many
students joyful and proud, as
their respective fraternities and
sororities presented them to
Wesleyan society.
One dance was a special "boy
meets girl" dance, invented for
the benefit of freshmen, and it
was amusing and interesting to
observe how everyone came out.
Well, it's all over now, but
the Grind will be remembered
by everyone as a fitting climax
to freshman week. Now that
everyone is thoroughly impressed
by Wesleyan's social life, we can
try to welcome studies as a
joyful relief.
Freshman music talent
to be featured on
next chapel program
Dr. Isaac Corn, head of the
chapel committee, has announc-ed
a musical program for next
Thursday's chapel.
The musical talent is to be
drawn from the incoming fresh-man
class.
1 ---
year.
"Placements for last year's
graduates have been extremely
satisfactory," states Mr. Jordan.
Fifty-three of last year's gradu-ating
class have been placed-which
is more than any pre-vious'
year. More alumni have
been helped to secure better po-sitions.
NOTICE!!
There will be a meeting of
all members of the Argus staff
Wednesday at 1 p. m. in the
reception room of Presser hall.
Students interested in work
for the A7rgus are also asked
to attend.
Activity tickets admit
students; program
is open to public
The first of an attractive ser-ies,
of lecture programs has
been scheduled for Wednesday,
September 20. This season's
course will be opened with the
dramatic reading of the famous
Broadway play, "The American
Way," by Eleanor Sikes Peters.
This will be Mrs. Peters third
appearance on the Wesleyan
stage. In two previous years
she presented "First Lady" and
"You Can't Take It With You."
Town people, as well as stu-dents,
may attend the lectures.
Students will be. admitted upon
presentation of the activity
ticket. The charge to the public
is forty cents. A season ticket,
covering admission to the entire
course costs $3.00.
Prof. William Beidles is in
charge of the programs.
More. music students
than ever, says
Dean Frank Jordan
"Twenty-eight students have
asked for admission to the music
school as freshmen, since the
official closing date of admis-sion,
June 15," announced Dean
Frank B. Jordan-in an inter-view
concerning new students
and the placements of graduates
in teaching positions.
"The talented group of fresh-men,
that we.now have includes,
students from Illinois, :Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin,
New York, and Michigan. A care-ful
check has been made on
the high schol records of all
new students."
Largest in the history of the
school of music is its' present
enrollment, consisting of 185
bachelor's degree students, ex-cluding
special students, un-classified,
and graduate stu-dents.
A smaller drop occurring
in the upperclass enrollment
makes it necessary for all fresh-men
to be admitted early in the